When I saw this video, I knew I had to share it with all of you. Watch it closely. Pay attention to the team in white because you have to count all the passes that they make.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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We see what we are looking for, not what is really there.

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It may seem natural to worry occasionally, when difficult situations arise… but some people worry often, usually focusing on a specific area of their life, such as health, a relationship, children, or money.

Worse yet, there are people who worry constantly. These people will even create a difficult problem or situation just to have something “real” to worry about.

“There is nothing that can’t be made worse by constant worry!” John Derrick

or, it could be re-phrased positively as:

“Everything can be made worse by constant worry!” John Derrick

Everyone in medicine knows that anxiety puts undo strain on your body.

What most people don’t realize is that it also pushes your success further away by attracting to you more of what you are worrying about.

So why worry?

Worrying about something does not solve it. It makes it worse. If a problem or set back arises, worrying about it is the worst thing you can do. There are many things you can do instead of worrying. Try mentally formulating a plan, then take the action that is best suited to deal with the problem. Reflect on your past thoughts and actions and see how they tie in with this new problem.

If you worry constantly, then you are constantly thinking negatively. Sometimes it’s as simple as discovering how to be a positive thinker that can eliminate anxiety and negative thoughts.

YouCanThinkPositive.com has a free course that can make a world of difference. These little tweaks and subtle changes in your thoughts can drastically improve your life.

Here is an oldie that still puts a smile on my face. Hopefully it will put a smile on yours also.

Yes, The Key will help you to harness the incredible power of negative thinking!

Warning: There is a naughty curse word in this video.

I thought everyone may get a laugh out of this.

To keep me on track, here is going to be the new format of the site. Your input is requested! Leave a comment or shoot me an email and let me know what you want to see more of on here. I will listen.

As of now, the schedule will be as follows:

DAY TOPIC
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Monday – Motivational
Tuesday – Law of Attraction
Wednesday – Review (Book, product, etc)
Thursday – Top 5 list (topic can vary)
Friday – Home Business Related
Sat – Random aka John’s Pick
Sunday – Humor (cheer you up before work)

As always, let me know what you think.

-John

I was sent this story from Patti, and I thought it was so funny that I had to share it with all of you! Enjoy:

We had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently died. Jack was a great cat and the kids would carry him around and sit on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on this mat in our bathroom.

Well we have 3 kids and at the time of this story they were 4 years old, 3 years old and 1 year old. The middle one is Eli. Eli really loves chapstick. LOVES it. He kept asking to use my chapstick and then losing it. So finally one day I showed him where in the bathroom I keep my chapstick and how he could use it whenever he wanted to but he needed to put it right back in the drawer when he was done.

Last year on Mother’s Day, we were having the typical rush around and try t o get ready for Church with everyone crying and carrying on. My two boys are fighting over the toy in the cereal box. I am trying to nurse my little one at the same time I am putting on my make-up. Everything is a mess and everyone has long forgotten that this is a wonderful day to honor me and the amazing job that is motherhood.

We finally have the older one and and the baby loaded in the car and I am looking for Eli. I have searched everywhere and I finally round the corner to go into the bathroom. And there was Eli. He was applying my chapstick very carefully to Jack’s . . . rear end. Eli looked right into my eyes and said “chapped.” Now if you have a cat, you know that he is right–their little butts do look pretty chapped. And, frankly, Jack didn’t seem to mind.

The only question to really ask at that point was whether it was the FIRST time Eli had done that to the cat’s behind or the hundredth.

And THAT is my favorite Mother’s Day moment ever because it reminds us that no matter how hard we try to civilize these glorious little creatures, there will always be that day when you realize they’ve been using your chapstick on the cat’s butt.

The difference is very dramatic in approach to life and in the results obtained. A spiritual person does not deal with a physical world problem solely at the physical level. A spiritual person knows that there is more going on here then he or she can perceive with the five senses alone.

Instead of trying to fix countless problems, one after another, spiritual people will go within themselves and fix what is creating or attracting all these problems to them first, and then deal with the so-called physical world problem.

Spiritual people always have more success in life and learn to expect miracles. Non-spiritual people are constantly focused on the problem at hand and as soon as they solve it they find a dozen more problems that have sprung up seemingly out of nowhere.

So now that I have laid the groundwork on the differences between the two ways of approaching life, what I really want to discuss is the misconception that being a spiritual being means that you must be serious all the time. As absurd as it may sound, people who are teachers, such as me, often feel they have to act a “certain way”, especially while in public.

Taking yourself seriously is not a trait of spirituality, at least not to me. Having fun and experiencing joy is certainly more spiritually uplifting then sitting stoic and acting pretentious because you are worried about what others will think of you.

I don’t care what other people think of me. I am beyond that stage in life and frankly I am surprised by many of my colleagues who are worrying about what others think of them to the point that they can’t be silly or joyful in public.

I’ve actually been told, “If you want people to take you seriously you need to act more like a business man.”

Since when are business men spiritual? I have a home business and it’s thriving, but that doesn’t mean that I have to behave like a stuffed shirt. I talk to people on the phone everyday and I laugh with them, exchange jokes and enjoy each others company. I enjoy my time with others.

Since I am the co-creator of my life, I actively choose to have a happy and joyful life. Since this joyfulness is the fuel for success and the life force that drives the law of attraction, I can’t imagine why anyone with this knowledge would want to “act like a businessman”.

Wayne Dyer taught me a long time ago to stop worrying about what others think and he said, “One of the highest places you can get to is to be independent of the good opinions of others.” I love Wayne Dyer, he is a great man and I believe that he follows his own advice, because the first thing most people would have done if they wanted to be a public figure, would have been to change their name. I mean C’mon how many Wayne’s do you know who are intellectual teachers? My hats off to Wayne Dyer, but then he is beyond caring what I or you think of him now isn’t he.